Social studies test regents

"Since the Southern states never legally left the Union, they should be restored to the Union as soon as possible."

Abraham Lincoln

Which argument was used by President Abraham Lincoln to explain his policy of leniency toward the South after the Civil War?

Healing the nation's wounds quickly is essential.

The principle of popular sovereignty was an important part of the

Kansas-Nebraska Act

14 amendment

Positive - equal rights and citizen Negative- plessy vs Ferguson

15 amendment

Positive- vote Negative- Grandfather clause

13 amendment

Positive-slavery Negative-sharecropping

The nation had grown increasingly divided over the future of slavery.

Reconstruction ended as federal troops were removed from the South.

Before the start of the Civil War, many Southern political leaders supported

States rights

Which constitutional principle was the main focus of the North-South conflicts that led to the Civil War?

States rights

"Uncle Tom's Cabin Stirs Controversy" "Kansas Rocked by Bloody Conflict" "John Brown's Raid Angers South" Which statement about the United States in the 1850s is best supported by these headlines?

The nation had grown increasingly divided over the future of slavery.

What was a major result of the Civil War?

The power of the central government was strengthened.

As the Civil War ended, which action was supported by President Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans?

abolishing the institution of slavery by a constitutional amendment

One way in which Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth are similar is that they all supported the

abolitionist movement

Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the

adoption of the 13th amendment to the Constitution

Jim Crow laws passed in the South during the late 1800s were designed to

create a system of legal segregation

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

deny suffrage rights to African Americans

Which event led directly to the secession of several Southern states from the Union?

election of Abraham Lincoln as president

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

A primary reason for the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868 was to

guarantee citizenship rights to the newly freed slaves

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were adopted in Southern States primarily to

keep African Americans from exercising their right to vote

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

After the Civil War, Southern state legislatures attempted to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons by

passing Black Codes

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. — 14th amendment, Section 1, United States Constitution This amendment was adopted in 1868 primarily to

protect the rights of formerly enslaved persons

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 were attempts by the federal government to

reduce the conflict over slavery

The constitutional controversy that led directly to the start of the Civil War concerned the right of states to

secede from the Union

After the Civil War, many owners of large plantations in the South responded to the loss of enslaved labor by

selling their plantations to formerly enslaved persons

Which group benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?

slave owners

"Compromise Enables Maine and Missouri to Enter the Union" "California Joins the Union As Part of Compromise of 1850" "Kansas-Nebraska Act Establishes Popular Sovereignty in the Territories" Which issue is most closely associated with these headlines?

status of slavery in new states

After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over

the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union

After the Civil War, freedmen in the South had difficulty improving their economic condition because

the system of sharecropping kept them in a cycle of poverty

With malice (hatred) toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on (continue) to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne (fought in) the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. — President Abraham Lincoln, 1865 This statement by President Lincoln contributed to disagreements over the

treatment of the former Confederate states and their leaders

After the Civil War, which development limited economic opportunities for African Americans in the South?

use of the sharecropping system